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Although as a male I highly support that sex work be legal, and acknowledge it as legitimate work, I do not tend to honestly respect this type of work (besides
by amcsi 5y ago
Although as a male I highly support that sex work be legal, and acknowledge it as legitimate work, I do not tend to honestly respect this type of work (besides the courage to do it and such). I find it quite unfair be able to make so much money for relatively low effort (at least it feels that way despite the downsides/dangers).
But I must say that this escort is super smart and has a really good sense of business. This article also gave me some newfound respect for escorts for the fact that although on the surface they seem to mostly just use their bodies, they do put in a lot of effort on the business and strategy side which people don't talk about.
- bananamerica 5y agoDid you read the article? There's absolutely nothing low effort about it...
- amcsi 5y agoI read the entire article. By making a lot of relatively low effort I mean selling something for a lot that's not a expensive items or valueable experienced labor. And like I said, before I thought this was all low effort work, and through this article I got to see the high effort business side.
- bananamerica 5y agoThat's absolutely valued experienced labor... are you sure you read it attentively?
- hn_throwaway_99 5y ago> I find it quite unfair be able to make so much money for relatively low effort I hope you hate capitalism then. It's all about supply and demand. As a gay man with some friends who escort, their rates are much lower, both for obvious reasons (it is ridiculously easy for most gay men to find other men to have sex with) and less obvious ones (IMO there is much less of a stigma among gay men for escorting, and at least friends I knew who did it expressed little shame at doing it).
- amcsi 5y agoIt is absolutely supply and demand. I meant girl escorts when I wrote what I wrote. I find it unfair that it you're born a girl and are pretty, you have this option.
- c21h30o2 5y agoPeople who are born men and rich have the option of paying for those services, so what's most unfair?
- amcsi 5y agoI don't see how the "men" part is relevant of what you are saying. The "rich" part is a good point: that's certainly more unfair. I'm thinking that if men and women of equally poor background, women have this escort option that men don't (obviously they do, but it pays far less good on average than women).
- c21h30o2 5y agoJust that men earn more money and have more wealth than women when looking at population averages. In many cultures women are expected to marry and look after the kids while the men work, and that expectation carries over into education opportunities, parental support, hiring decisions and so on.